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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-28-161 · Cambridge, MD · June 14, 2018

Date
June 14, 2018 · 08:00 local
Place
Cambridge, MD
Airport
Cambridge-Dorchester County Ar
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N81202
Reported as
Piper PA-28-161
Reported engine
Lycoming 0-320 series
People aboard
3
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificates
Commercial pilot, flight instructor, private pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
277 total

From the FAA’s Accident/Incident Data System (AIDS), through its Aviation Safety Information Portal, as reported. The NTSB investigates accidents separately, and its record of an accident is the fuller one. The aircraft is matched to the registry by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

What happened

The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.

Instructor was providing instruction to a student with one passenger student. Numerous touch and goes had been performed at cge. On final attempt, the aircraft landed in the grass short of rwy 34 causing minor damage to the nose gear of the aircraft.

Weather: 7:55 am, temp 77 f, dew point 61 f, humidity 57 %, wind nnw at 14 mph, wind gust at 21 mph, pressure 29.9 in, mostly cloudy

As the FAA filed it

INSTRUCTOR WAS PROVIDING INSTRUCTION TO A STUDENT WITH ONE PASSENGER STUDENT. NUMEROUS TOUCH AND GOES HAD BEEN PERFORMED AT CGE. ON FINAL ATTEMPT, THE AIRCRAFT LANDED IN THE GRASS SHORT OF RWY 34 CAUSING MINOR DAMAGE TO THE NOSE GEAR OF THE AIRCRAFT.

WEATHER: 7:55 AM, TEMP 77 F, DEW POINT 61 F, HUMIDITY 57 %, WIND NNW AT 14 MPH, WIND GUST AT 21 MPH, PRESSURE 29.9 IN, MOSTLY CLOUDY